How to Use disbelieve in a Sentence

disbelieve

verb
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  • Several jurors disbelieved the witness's testimony.
  • For their part, the Spurs did their best to disbelieve it.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 1 May 2021
  • Some disbelieving piece of you can’t stop going back over the past.
    — Katy Waldman, Slate Magazine, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Trump wants voters to forget about or disbelieve the facts of the pandemic.
    — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2020
  • The courts were almost twice as likely to disbelieve the mothers’ claims of abuse in those scenarios.
    — Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 16 Sep. 2021
  • The trauma of it all led him to write a lengthy letter to Pope Francis in 2015 detailing the abuse — only to have the pontiff disbelieve him.
    — Aubrey Nagle, Philly.com, 29 May 2018
  • Now the disbelieving Novoa was caught between two forces of nature.
    — Gary Peterson, The Mercury News, 6 Aug. 2019
  • In woven leather, the shoes are expertly crafted, but will get you some disbelieving stares on the street.
    — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 13 Oct. 2017
  • Meaning, Trump has convinced his devotees to disbelieve their own eyes and ears.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN, 26 July 2021
  • Tens of millions of voters were willing to disbelieve the media.
    — WSJ, 7 Jan. 2022
  • With a disbelieving forward baring down on goal with Neuer, Higuain snatched at the shot however, and scuffed his shot wide.
    — SI.com, 14 June 2018
  • When her disbelieving parents banish Pet, Jam and the creature team up in secret to hunt the monster.
    — Washington Post, 14 Jan. 2020
  • The words belong to Cassandra, the Trojan prophetess doomed to be disbelieved.
    — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 25 Jan. 2024
  • John was very active in throwing his body between us and, at that point, a disbelieving Disney.
    — Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Apr. 2018
  • The system has been designed to disbelieve them, the veterans complain.
    — Kaiser Health News, oregonlive, 10 Aug. 2022
  • Ahmed al-Kilani walked the camp in a disbelieving daze one recent evening, just 24 hours after his arrival in Europe.
    — Griff Witte, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2018
  • Yet, 16 of the 17 people who reported brain fog in our study described feeling disbelieved.
    — Emily Mendenhall, Scientific American, 12 May 2023
  • Voters seem to believe a reporter and disbelieve a politician.
    — David E. Clementson, The Conversation, 19 Mar. 2021
  • Clinton is displaying, a self that will be embraced by some and disbelieved by others.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2017
  • Less clear is precisely which 10 to 30 percent should be disbelieved.
    — Matt Flegenheimer, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2018
  • Ready to disbelieve That Kaysing’s conspiracy theory took hold in mid-1970s America is in large part due to a wider crisis of trust in the country at the time.
    — Peter Knight, Quartz, 11 July 2019
  • Others choose to simply disbelieve the harmfulness of lead.
    — Martin Schiavenato, The Conversation, 30 Aug. 2023
  • The crowd, disbelieving, yelled and stared at Ledecka, encouraging her to emote.
    — Barry Svrluga, Anchorage Daily News, 18 Feb. 2018
  • Perhaps that desire to believe that all is well is one of the reasons that people are so inclined to disbelieve women who come forward to speak about their assault.
    — Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Jan. 2018
  • The rest of the respondents either disbelieved both men or were undecided.
    — Bryan Lowry, kansascity, 15 Jan. 2018
  • The stadium fell silent with anticipation, and then rather than an eruption, a disbelieving groan filled the air.
    — SI.com, 6 Nov. 2019
  • Bates is marvelous as the baffled but never disbelieving foot soldier who is the link between the worlds of sanity and madness, whichever is which.
    — Charles Champlin, latimes.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • If Schitt’s Creek were still airing, the Rose family would own several of these and be forced to explain their value to disbelieving locals.
    — Louisa Ballhaus, Robb Report, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Meier’s study found that when fathers claim alienation, courts are more than twice as likely to disbelieve mothers’ claims of abuse — either child abuse or abuse against the mother — than if the father made no alienation claim.
    — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, 29 July 2019
  • Because so many of them have come to disbelieve anything Israeli officials say, there is a reflex to discount reports of atrocities or hostage testimonies.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024

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